Oh for fark's sakes.

Leafs fans: Let it go already. This is pathetic. If it was a SCF Game 7 OT conspiracy, you might have a case, but this is a blown call from a referee in Game 6 of the Western Final.

Even if Kerry Fraser made the call, there's no guarantee you would have won the game. There's no guarantee you would have won game 7. There's no guarantee you would have done anything in the Finals against a Canadiens team that won 10 straight overtime games, backstopped by what is probably the most incredible individual performance by a goalkeeper in the history of the NHL playoffs (they eviscerated the Kings in five games). You were barely 70% of the way to the Stanley Cup and you act like it was stolen from your bedroom.

This incident is never going to get better, but it wasn't why you lost. You lost because you weren't good enough. You were a genuine top 10 team throughout the 90s but never a serious contender. You were never going to win the Cup; it was never going to happen no matter how many what ifs you throw at it.

So just stop. Seriously. You sound like an anal retentive trick who feels he got ripped off from a $10 handjob. If this is the only thing you can cling to as the hallmark of a 40+ legacy of futility, you are the saddest god damn franchise in professional sports.

Whether or not now-retired referee Kerry Fraser was on anyone's payroll has yet to be proven and the rest of the leaked memo where we presume the names of operatives are located has been redacted. But Fraser would only be one of many who were employed by the Liberals to contain Quebec as the Sponsorship Scandal would later prove. Coincidentally, it was during the bribery-marred Sponsorship Program (a program established to heighten the Government of Canada's profile in Quebec via contributions to Quebec industries and other activities in order to quell momentum of the Parti Québécois and thwart their efforts to promote Quebec independence) that theToronto Maple Leafs were moved to the Eastern Conference, forever averting the possibility of the two teams meeting in the finals.

Oh, FFS. Toronto lost because Potvin quit standing on his head by the third round. Full stop. Quit blaming others for the incompetence of your own team.

/43yrs old, haven't seen TO win the cup in my lifetime

Waiting for Lightning to show up and scream "I KNEW IT!"

All true, and they lost in the conference final again the next year because the gubment wanted Vancouver in the final.

unyon: Oh, FFS. Toronto lost because Potvin quit standing on his head by the third round. Full stop

What Felix Potvin standing oh his head might look like.

unyon: /43yrs old, haven't seen TO win the cup in my lifetime

I feel your pain, 34, never seen the Canucks win it (obvious).

gilmour was only in toronto cause he farked a 14-year-old. i think he deserved a stick to the face.

It's a satirical article people, calm the fark down.

The maple leafs have conspired to keep the maple leafs out of the finals, conference finals, semi's and quarters.

Is this the thread where we mope about Cup-less streaks? At least the Leafs have won.

MattyFridays: Waiting for Lightning to show up and scream "I KNEW IT!"

3...2...1...

Speaking of 1993 Cup conspiracies

Lets get Stanley Cup day started right........LETS GO DEVILS!

Fun read, love the smell of a good conspiracy theorie in the morning!

Anyway, the Habs would have won!
Would have been glorious if they had beatten the Leafs for there 24th Cup though.

Gretzky did more than the Parliament in 1993

If you ask me, this thread was done in one.

Flappyhead: It's a satirical article people, calm the fark down.

Sports tab isn't happy without some good old fashioned Leafs hate.

Ishkur: Oh for fark's sakes.

Leafs fans: Let it go already. This is pathetic. If it was a SCF Game 7 OT conspiracy, you might have a case, but this is a blown call from a referee in Game 6 of the Western Final.

Even if Kerry Fraser made the call, there's no guarantee you would have won the game. There's no guarantee you would have won game 7. There's no guarantee you would have done anything in the Finals against a Canadiens team that won 10 straight overtime games, backstopped by what is probably the most incredible individual performance by a goalkeeper in the history of the NHL playoffs (they eviscerated the Kings in five games). You were barely 70% of the way to the Stanley Cup and you act like it was stolen from your bedroom.

This incident is never going to get better, but it wasn't why you lost. You lost because you weren't good enough. You were a genuine top 10 team throughout the 90s but never a serious contender. You were never going to win the Cup; it was never going to happen no matter how many what ifs you throw at it.

So just stop. Seriously. You sound like an anal retentive trick who feels he got ripped off from a $10 handjob. If this is the only thing you can cling to as the hallmark of a 40+ legacy of futility, you are the saddest god damn franchise in professional sports.

This Leafs fan is over it. The guy who wrote this blog is a nut first and foremost.

Most Leafs fans I know are meh over the Leafs, I don't know any hardcore Leafs fans anymore.

The best part of this conspiracy theory is the suggestion that Kerry Fraser was competent enough to - in a split second's time - see a play, identify it as THE key moment that will SAVE Canada, and ignore Gretzky's high stick. Amusing. This is notwithstanding the fact that fans of every team in the NHL have a story about how Fraser screwed them.

Oh, and I'll just leave this here...



/Remember when the Leafs traded him just to spite Darryl Sittler?

farkin Kerry Fraser!!

Resolute: The best part of this conspiracy theory is the suggestion that Kerry Fraser was competent enough to - in a split second's time - see a play, identify it as THE key moment that will SAVE Canada, and ignore Gretzky's high stick. Amusing. This is notwithstanding the fact that fans of every team in the NHL have a story about how Fraser screwed them.

Oh, and I'll just leave this here...

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/Remember when the Leafs Harold Ballard traded him just to spite Darryl Sittler?

FTFY.

keiran: Is this the thread where we mope about Cup-less streaks? At least the Leafs have won.

I'm convinced the Blues will never be allowed to win the Stanley Cup. Same with other mid-level flyover country markets like Minnesota, Nashville, Columbus and Winnipeg.

I've been to games against the Red Wings where they practically murder a St. Louis player and there's no call. Then a Blues player gives someone a dirty look and they're sent to the box for 2 minutes.

/Gary Bettman sucks.

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farkin Kerry Fraser!!

Good one.

And thank God Mick McGeough retired.

This psychopath brings up a good point. Because we all know that there's nothing the NHL *HATES* more than Canadian Teams doing well in the playoffs and making the cup finals/winning the cup.

That farkin loss deserves a farkin 32... 36 pack of farkin eggos with blueberries in em

mjohnson71: keiran: Is this the thread where we mope about Cup-less streaks? At least the Leafs have won.

I'm convinced the Blues will never be allowed to win the Stanley Cup. Same with other mid-level flyover country markets like Minnesota, Nashville, Columbus and Winnipeg.

I've been to games against the Red Wings where they practically murder a St. Louis player and there's no call. Then a Blues player gives someone a dirty look and they're sent to the box for 2 minutes.

/Gary Bettman sucks.

Mid-level flyover markets never winning the cup? What about the Hurricanes? What about the Ducks? What about the Lightning? What about the Penguins?

soopey: mjohnson71: keiran: Is this the thread where we mope about Cup-less streaks? At least the Leafs have won.

I'm convinced the Blues will never be allowed to win the Stanley Cup. Same with other mid-level flyover country markets like Minnesota, Nashville, Columbus and Winnipeg.

I've been to games against the Red Wings where they practically murder a St. Louis player and there's no call. Then a Blues player gives someone a dirty look and they're sent to the box for 2 minutes.

/Gary Bettman sucks.

Mid-level flyover markets never winning the cup? What about the Hurricanes? What about the Ducks? What about the Lightning? What about the Penguins?

Have you looked at a map recently to see where Carolina, Anaheim and Tampa Bay are located?

mjohnson71:
Have you looked at a map recently to see where Carolina, Anaheim and Tampa Bay are located?

Not Canada?

When did they change the start times for the games in LA? All games are now scheduled to start at 5pm eastern. Sucks for local fans but awesome for those of us on the other side of the country.

soopey: mjohnson71:
Have you looked at a map recently to see where Carolina, Anaheim and Tampa Bay are located?

Not Canada?

Would you describe them as "flyover country"?

9beers: When did they change the start times for the games in LA? All games are now scheduled to start at 5pm eastern. Sucks for local fans but awesome for those of us on the other side of the country.

Don't you mean 5pm pacific, 8 eastern? Link

When did they change the start times for the games in LA? All games are now scheduled to start at 5pm eastern. Sucks for local fans but awesome for those of us on the other side of the country.

lolwut?

It wasn't Kerry Fraser who jobbed the Leafs in game two of that series, and returned to job them in game five. The series would have been over in five games.

/not a Leafs fan
//they would have been blown out in four games by Montreal in the finals anyway

TJWitz: 9beers: When did they change the start times for the games in LA? All games are now scheduled to start at 5pm eastern. Sucks for local fans but awesome for those of us on the other side of the country.

Don't you mean 5pm pacific, 8 eastern? Link

Don't mind him, he's just another worthless troll.

Flappyhead: Resolute: The best part of this conspiracy theory is the suggestion that Kerry Fraser was competent enough to - in a split second's time - see a play, identify it as THE key moment that will SAVE Canada, and ignore Gretzky's high stick. Amusing. This is notwithstanding the fact that fans of every team in the NHL have a story about how Fraser screwed them.

Oh, and I'll just leave this here...

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/Remember when the Leafs Harold Ballard traded him just to spite Darryl Sittler?

FTFY.

Actually, it was Punch Imlach. Ballard nearly got charged with tampering the following season for musing publicly that the Leafs were going to re-acquire McDonald.

Oh god.

No.

/Leafs fan

Ishkur: Oh for fark's sakes.

Leafs fans: Let it go already.

Yeah. This is definitely the work of all the Leafs fans working together in concert. Believe me, this fanbase can't even agree on what the team should do most of the time. You're giving them too much credit.

Considering the bigger conspiracy is that no Canadian team has won the Cup since 1993, I think you're doing it wrong.

mjohnson71: soopey: mjohnson71:
Have you looked at a map recently to see where Carolina, Anaheim and Tampa Bay are located?

Not Canada?

Would you describe them as "flyover country"?

Depends on your destination. Carolina could be considered a flyover state. Anaheim isn't exactly the main destination most think of in socal. Neither is Tampa in Florida.

Or Dallas. Or Denver. Or Newark.

Most of the Cup winners of the last 2 decades have come from mid-markets.

mjohnson71: Would you describe them as "flyover country"?

Are you honestly trying to say there's a difference between a mid-market team on a coast and a mid-market team in the midwest?

Resolute: Flappyhead: Resolute: The best part of this conspiracy theory is the suggestion that Kerry Fraser was competent enough to - in a split second's time - see a play, identify it as THE key moment that will SAVE Canada, and ignore Gretzky's high stick. Amusing. This is notwithstanding the fact that fans of every team in the NHL have a story about how Fraser screwed them.

Oh, and I'll just leave this here...

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/Remember when the Leafs Harold Ballard traded him just to spite Darryl Sittler?

FTFY.

Actually, it was Punch Imlach. Ballard nearly got charged with tampering the following season for musing publicly that the Leafs were going to re-acquire McDonald.

True, but Imlach only traded Lanny to try and get rid of Sittler. Ballard just sat back and let Imlach dismantle the team before finally firing him. Of course, Ballard had no business bringing Punch back to begin with.

change1211: TJWitz: 9beers: When did they change the start times for the games in LA? All games are now scheduled to start at 5pm eastern. Sucks for local fans but awesome for those of us on the other side of the country.

Don't you mean 5pm pacific, 8 eastern? Link

Don't mind him, he's just another worthless troll.

Yes, now a typo also counts as tolling.

Guess what, you're the damn troll.

proteus_b: gilmour was only in toronto cause he farked a 14-year-old. i think he deserved a stick to the face.

Don't worry. Someday you might get a chance too.

Lego_Addict: Most Leafs fans I know are meh over the Leafs, I don't know any hardcore Leafs fans anymore.

Oh, they're there. Wait til you start winning. So.... from October to December.

Flappyhead: It's a satirical article people, calm the fark down.

spoil sport.

Thudfark: Don't worry. Someday you might get a chance too.

to fark my babysitter? i dunno, maybe. i'd like to think that if i do get married, it will be because i'm not into banging other women, especially not minor ones. it was unfortunate that the blues lost him, cause he was a great competitor. but fourteen-year-olds....

Figures this piece was written by a Leafs fan.

Did the Leafs get screwed over? Sort of. It was a missed call. They happen a lot (Brett Hull's skate in the crease comes to mind). But it just doesn't matter. The Habs would have bulldozed the Leafs and that would have been that. Realistically, I think Leafs fans would be even MORE bitter now had they gone to the finals that year and lost to Montreal.

Jesus, they're pretty unbearable now. Can you imagine if their last point of reference to the Stanley Cup finals was a loss to the Habs?

the reverse vampyres were in on it too!